Black History

Freedom Riders get place in history 50 years later

By theGrio

11:25 PM on 05/20/2011

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station where he was beaten and knocked unconscious...
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Freedom Riders museum opens in Montgomery, Ala.

By theGrio

10:52 AM on 05/20/2011

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Freedom Riders were trying to integrate Southern bus stations when they arrived in Montgomery on May 20, 1961...
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Happy birthday Malcolm X! Top 10 quotes from an icon

By Kristen Clarke

8:27 AM on 05/19/2011

theGRIO REPORT - There are few figures in the black freedom struggle as dynamic and complex as Malcolm X...
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Civil rights-era rape victim revels in White House tour

By theGrio

6:47 PM on 05/12/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Recy Taylor is touring the nation's capital nearly seven decades after she was denied justice following a brutal assault...
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50 years later, students retrace 1961 Freedom Ride

By theGrio

2:01 PM on 05/09/2011

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to him...
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Slideshow: Remembering the Freedom Riders

By theGrio

4:43 PM on 05/04/2011

SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by bus to confront segregation in the South...
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May marks 50 years since Freedom Rides in South

By theGrio

4:15 PM on 05/04/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - This month, students will retrace the Freedom Rides. Also, PBS will premiere a new documentary on the subject...
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178 Freedom Riders to be on 'Oprah Winfrey Show'

By theGrio

8:54 AM on 05/03/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is marking the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride...
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Labor Dept. honors 1968 Memphis sanitation strikers

By theGrio

5:14 PM on 04/29/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The strike was the scene of Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign before an assassin's bullet took his life...
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Museum exhibit on 1964 MLK arrest opens

By theGrio

2:55 PM on 04/27/2011

VIDEO - A new exhibit at the Excelsior Center shows the impact of King's visit and arrest on the city and the civil rights movement...
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New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story

By theGrio

11:18 AM on 04/27/2011

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - The opera depicts Madikizela-Mandela facing accusations she helped a gang of young men terrorize Soweto in the late 1980s...
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After 67 years, lawmakers apologize to rape victim

By theGrio

4:06 PM on 04/22/2011

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses "deepest sympathy and deepest regrets" to Recy Taylor...
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Civil Rights museum opens in Great Barrington, Mass.

By theGrio

12:12 PM on 04/20/2011

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) - The museum will display rare books and documents connected with civil rights icons like Frederick Douglass, performer Paul Robeson...
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Restored MLK church re-opening in Atlanta

By theGrio

11:05 AM on 04/15/2011

ATLANTA (AP) - King was born not far from Ebenezer and is buried across the street from the church. He co-pastored there with his father from 1960 until he was killed in 1968...
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150th anniversary of Civil War: Few blacks on hand

By theGrio

2:02 PM on 04/12/2011

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Cannon fired around Charleston Harbor in South Carolina before dawn, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War...
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Civil War at 150: Are we whitewashing slavery?

By Ronda Racha Penrice

9:11 AM on 04/12/2011

OPINION - As pivotal as the Civil War is in our nation's complex history, African-Americans appear less enthusiastic about the sesquicentennial...
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Slideshow: Unsung heroes of the Civil War

By Samantha Behrooj

8:24 AM on 04/12/2011

SLIDESHOW - On the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, theGrio is looking back at some of the war's most decorated and courageous people...
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Malcolm X's daughters unhappy with new book

By theGrio

2:01 PM on 04/07/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Two of Malcolm X's daughters are unhappy that a new biography alleges their parents' marriage was strained...
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Why questions about Malcolm X's sexuality are irrelevant

By Javier E. David

8:16 AM on 04/06/2011

OPINION - To be frank, Malcolm's sexuality is irrelevant to his overall historical contributions, as well they should be...
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The time is right to remember Booker T. Washington

By Shamara Riley

8:00 AM on 04/05/2011

OPINION - Washington's mantra of building upon black strengths increasingly resonates...
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